... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?
I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.
The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.
She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!